Adam Bendjemil, Business Development / Management Trainee Program

Adam Bendjemil

Business Development / Management Trainee Program

Meltwater

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, International Business
Experience
10 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 8 Months

Business Development / Management Trainee Program at Meltwater
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since September 2016

Meltwater is a global leading media intelligence company who provides media monitoring and social media monitoring to help companies grow and build brands.

Main responsibilities:
• Client Acquisition role based on Inbound inquiries, Cold call, and events
• Provide client training to ensure efficient use of the service to achieve good ROI
• Collect payment and manage any financial issues
• Conduct Demo of Meltwater solutions to qualified prospects
• Identify Business Opportunities / Generate and qualified new leads

Business Development Manager at German Imaging Technologies
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2016 to September 2017

German Imaging Technologies LLC is a company launched in Dubai in 1999. Offering a wide range of printing solutions, the company is today leading the market in UAE.

Main responsibilities:
- Achieve monthly sales & closings targets.
- Create and develop B2B clients portfolio.
- Responsible of CSR actions
- Maintain fruitful relationships with existing customers, ensure and strengthened great and reactive customer services.
- Identify Business opportunities and conduct market researches, transform them into valuable contracts and partnership
- Lead and form the sales team, training in sales, customer services and communications.
- Networking and Developing partnership with other related business

Main achievements:
- Create a partnership with Dubai & Federal Government worth 2 millions AED / year
- Launch & Lead online sales with a sustainable growth (20%/month).
- Directed a partnerhip campaign with Dubai Autism Center lead to 100, 000.00+AED donation
- Sign Tier 1 / Entreprise size customer in a monthly basis

Founder at New&Now
  • France
  • October 2014 to August 2016

New&Now Ltd is a French company operating in Cambodia, retailing consumer electronics such as home appliance, informatics, multimedia, and cellphones. Directly report to Investors while managing a multicultural team of 7 people.

Main responsibilities:
• Achieve monthly sales targets
• Create and develop B2B clients portfolio.
• Maintain fruitful relationships with existing customers, ensure and strengthened great and reactive customer services.
• Identify Business opportunities and conduct market researches, transform them into valuable contracts (Business Development)
• Lead and form the sales team, training in sales, customer services, and communications.
• Create efficient merchandising strategy, optimize in-store experience of stores
• In charge of Social Media and Marketing campaign

Main achievements:
• Reach sales targets for 16 consecutive months, for more than 412.000$ of turnover. Tracked records included.
• Increased directly sales revenue by 35% in a 3 months period after negotiated and implanted successful B2B contracts with two local retailing websites Kaymu.com and Maiomall.com
• Add in 16 months 9 new clients in the company portfolio.
• Introduce Asus tablets in Cambodian market, after negotiation with regional Asus Head of Sales (Mr. Chen Ping),
• Signed valuable Sponsor contract with Thierry Chantha Bin (National Football Team player).
• Created and developed social media followed by tens of thousands of customers until today, consequently increased the Brand recognition.

Business Development Executive at Burgundy School of Business
  • France
  • September 2013 to October 2014

INCUB', the Incubator of Burgundy School of Business is in charge to support and advices customer's company. Reporting to the Incubator Director, my main mission was focused on achieving business development mission for start-ups and fast-growing companies from automotive, FMCG goods and consumer electronics fields.

Main responsibilities:
- Generate new sales leads for customer's company
- Executed market researches and transform them into Business opportunities
- Reach sales target objectives fixed between incubator and customer's company
- Promoted and increased incubator activity by creating and managing events and directing social media strategy
- Reviewed Business plans and improved them, especially economic models
- Improved and coached entrepreneur’s network (contact to raise funds, find suitable partners, banks and lawyers), review their economic plan and help them to reach their sales revenue targets

Main achievements:
- Provide a successful Business Development support to 6 companies
- Increased the incubator activity from 3 to 12 companies, till reach the maximum capacity of INCUB'
- Raised over 185.000$ of funds for start-ups
- Opened up and encouraged the channel between Business Angels and entrepreneurs to create new promising start-ups
- Arranged start-up week-end events regrouped more than 500 people

Education

Master's degree, International Business
  • at Burgundy School of Business
  • January 2016

Curriculum completed in English. Specialization in B2B in Middle East market. Exchange Semester completed at Feng Chia University, Taiwan. Learning of Chinese (mandarin), Tourism in Asia and Middle-East and B2B business in Asia. Thesis focused on B2B opportunities and perspective for interior design field in a UAE market context. Gap year experience at New&Now Ltd.

Bachelor's degree, Economics
  • at Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne
  • June 2013

Top ranked economic bachelor degree in France. Specialization in Finance & Budgeting. Receive the merit scholarship during my Bachelor.

Specialties & Skills

Accounting
Marketing
Public Relations
Business Development
Team Leardership
Negotiation Skill
Microsoft Office
Sales Management
Problem Solving
Marketing
Social Media
outdoor sales
consumer electronics
B2B Sales
Presentation Skill
Communication skill

Languages

Arabic
Beginner
Chinese
Intermediate
English
Expert
French
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

TOEIC Grade : 890 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
UAE Driver Licence (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Boxe
    Boxing teacher for Burgundy school of business & Athis Fight club